Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo

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Ottavio Cardinal Cagiano de Azevedo (born November 7, 1845 in Frosinone , Italy , † July 11, 1927 in Anzio , Province of Rome ) was an Italian Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo was a nephew of Antonio Maria Cardinal Cagiano de Azevedo .

He received his philosophical and theological training in the seminary of Grottaferrata and received the sacrament of priestly ordination in 1868 . He then worked as a parish chaplain in Rome . From 1892 he was in the service of the Vatican , where he was papal chamberlain until 1901 and from 1901 held the office of papal majordomo .

Pope Pius X accepted him on December 11, 1905 as a cardinal deacon with the title diakonia Santi Cosma e Damiano in the college of cardinals and in 1913 appointed him first pro-prefect, then cardinal -prefect of the religious congregation . He took part in the 1914 conclave that Pope Benedict XV. chose. The latter appointed him Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church on December 6, 1915 and on the same day elevated him to Cardinal Priest with the titular Church of San Lorenzo in Damaso . Cardinal Cagiano de Azevedo was a participant in the 1922 conclave , from which Pius XI. emerged as Pope.

Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo died on July 11, 1927 in Anzio and was buried in the Campo Verano cemetery in Rome.

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